_____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of pianotune05 Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:10 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: Our own pianos Hi Avery, I agree with you. It's dificult to tune, but I tuned a new piano that didn't hold well not too long agon. It's interesting I must add. I wanted someone I met in our field to see how my tuning is doing. I tuned for them, and it took me forever as usual.;) The tuning was great. A week later, I tuned for them again, and they wanted me to do two pianos. I did them in the same time frame The pins on these were tight, stiff and I had to work hard with them. My unisons were "squirly" as in someting that eats acorns? :) I'm not sure what they meant. Anyway, I need to up my speed and somehow get past this awesoe tuning squirly tuning swing and stay on a steady flow of awesome tunings. I usually get the unisons in really well. Have you guys had this happen in the beginning of your careers? Marshall [Leslie Bartlett] How about all through one's career........................................ It never ends which is why the better tuners say that every piano can be a teacher. I personally think a piano can't be "forced"into tune, but the tuner has to come to understand the particular "personality" of the piano and work as the piano allows. But then I'm crazy............. :-) After I've done some big deal tuning for a concert here or there, I'll inevitably come on some "thing" which will eat my lunch and make me pretty sure I know nothing at all. Ron Nossaman did a whole class a couple years ago, spending an hour and a half telling us a piano can't be tuned. Horrible class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - and one of the most useful I've ever attended. But now, each time I sit down at a piano I remind myself it can't be tuned, and I find a burden lifted as I go about doing the best my skills will allow, and accept the fact that the perfectionist ideal I seek doesn't exist.It keeps one humble,and ever learning les bartlett -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.6/324 - Release Date: 04/25/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060426/f1cce926/attachment.html
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